Michael Toomin, a former Cook County judge who presided over some of the county’s highest profile cases and helmed the juvenile justice division for a decade, died on Friday. Toomin, 85, succumbed to cancer a little more than six months after he retired in December after a decadeslong career that began on 26th Street as a lawyer and then judge after he was first elected in 1980. As a judge, he .
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The battle over the historic Black business district provides a window into street-level democracy, Chicago-style. In the middle of the fray, City Hall is the referee.